Facts Our Party Will Not Officially Admit, That It Must

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14. They've been dreaming of a "permanent Republic majority" since Nixon

As I posted here a year ago, "There's a reference to Pat Buchanan proposing it in an account of the founding of the Heritage Foundation by longtime movement conservative Lee Edwards. He writes, "Patrick J. Buchanan, then working for Nixon aide H. R. Haldeman, had developed a plan similar to the Weyrich-Feulner analysis. Buchanan had made himself the White House expert on 'how the liberal beast operated' in Washington, and within days of Nixon's reelection in November 1972, he presented the president with a lengthy memorandum on how 'to make permanent the New Majority.'" (http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/e/edwards-ideas.html)"

It was also in the Nixon years that Karl Rove and the other GOP dirty tricksters got their start.

Ever since then it's been a core GOP objective not to go with the normal ebb and flow of political power but to use their time in control to entrench themselves, make voting procedures less democratic, and weaken sources of support for the Democrats such as unions.

If the Democrats don't call them on it, I believe it's because the prospect of admitting that one of our two major political parties has abandoned democracy is intolerable to anyone whose life is built around a faith in the democratic system.